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' WIRE FENCE. No. 486,588; Patented Nov. 22, 1892.

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ISAIAH OAKS, OF UNION, OHIO, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO ESTY FOLKERTI-I,

OF SAME PLACE.

WIRE FENCE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 486.588, dated November 22, 1892. Application filed June 22, 1892. Serial No. 437,649. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern: body of the wire at the center, and at the ends Be it known that I, ISAIAH OAKS, a citizen are formed hooks 3 and 4, they being curved of the United States, residing at Union, in in a reverse order and parallel to each other. the county of Montgomery and State of Ohio, D is a light binding-wire, which is passed 5 have invented a certain new and useful Ilnaround the body and the ends and is then provement in W'ire Fences; and I do hereby twisted to hold the hooked ends snugly against declare that the following'is a full, clear, and said body. This binding-Wire may be used exact description of the invention, which will or not, as circumstanc s may determine. The enable others skilled in the art to which it apparallel dotted lines B, Fig. 2, show the posi- [O pertains to make and use the same, reference tion of the runner. If the stays are made of being had to the accompanying drawings, lightwire, the ends of the hooks may be bent and to the letters and figures of reference down so as to embrace the runner. marked thereon, which form a part of this The operation of attaching the stays to the specification. runners is as follows: First, a series of stays 15 My invention relates to improvements in are strung together, as a chain, by entering 6" stays for wire fences, the same consisting of the hooked end of one into the loop of an looped links of wire terminating-at their cenother; second, fasten the series to the top tors in two hooks curved in a reverse order runner by the loop of wire, as specified; third, and adapted to engage a series of runners by turn the stay and pass one of the hooked ends 20 the interlinking of the same, and thereby over the runner by pressing the hook out serving to hold the same in position. from the body until the runner can fall over The object of my invention is to stay the the hook, then turn the stay to an oblique runners of a wire fence, so that an upward position, and the other hook will pass over the pressure will be securely resisted and a downrunner. When all of the series are thus at- 25 ward pressure will admit of a downward tached to their respective runners, the lower movement without bending or injury to said stay is secured as before specified. stays, and as a consequence said runners may What I do claim, and desire to secure by resume their normal positions without ob- Letters Patent, isstruction when relieved of pressure. I at- 1. The stay A for wire fences, formed of a 30 tain the object by the construction illustrated single piece of wire bent into two loops equiin the accompanying drawings, in which distant from its center, the ends overlapped Figure 1 is a front view of a section of wire at the center at the sides of the body, and parfence. Fig. 2 is an enlarged front view 'of a allel hooks in reverse order formed of the two stay. ends adapted to embrace 'the runner, sub 5 Like, letters and numerals designate like stantially as shown and described. parts in the two views. 2. The stay A for wire fences, formed of a The letters B represent a series of runners. single piece of wire bent into two loops equi- The same are secured to posts at suitable disdistant from its center, the ends overlapped tances apart and are drawn tightly between at the center at the sides of the body, and par- 40 the end posts by devices for tightening the allel hooks in reverse order formed of the two same. As arranged horizontally the disends adapted to embrace the runner, in comtances apart may vary and the staysin length bination with the binding-wire D, substanwould have to correspond to such varying t-ially as described.

. distances. O O are the top and bottom loops In testimony that I claim the foregoingas 45 of wire which are linked into the loops of the my own I affix my signature in presence of contiguous stays and the ends are then bent two witnesses.

in spiral coils about the top and bottom run- ISAIAH OAKS. ners. The stay A is formed of wire by form- Vitnesses: ing two loops 1 and 2 equidistant from the B. PIOKERING,

5o center. The ends overlap at the sides of the B. F. HERSHEY. 

